Damsel wrote:

> We kids would have contests to see who could eat the biggest wad of
> spaghetti. As I mentioned earlier, one or two strands is pretty much
> all
> the average person can handle.
>
> Carol
>

Well ok, children also pick their noses and eat their 'snot' bite their
toenails and do other equaly disgusting things often involving
flatulence and the gag reflex (the vernacular "burp").

And metaphorically this is no differant than the "nature red in tooth
and claw" aspect of 'adult' perceptions.
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JL